Rick Riordan, the best-selling author of the Percy Jackson series, pumps up the action and suspense in The Lost Hero, the first book in The Heroes of Olympus series.
Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids." What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea—except that everything seems very wrong.
Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he's in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn't recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on?
Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. What's troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all—including Leo—related to a god.
Fans of demigods, prophecies, and quests will be left breathless—and panting for Book Two.
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Disability rep: #ND #ADHD #AttentionDeficitHyperactivityDisorder #Dyslexia *
Other representation*: #LGBTQIA #Gay #Chinese #ChineseCanadian #LactoseIntolerance #Latine #Mexican #NativeAmerican #Cherokee #Black #PuertoRican
Publication date: #October2010 #2010year
Awards won: West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA), Older Readers (2011), Evergreen Teen Book Award (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee, Young Adult Fantasy and for Favorite Book (2010)
*Note: some of this representation is for the whole series, not just The Lost Hero!